Designing, deploying, and operating Microsoft Intune. Home of the Intune Deployment Guide.
The move to cloud management didn’t just change where policy lives. It changed what trust means and how it’s established. In a traditional model, trust is largely implied. A device is joined to the domain. It sits on the corporate…
One of the most common mistakes I see is treating Intune as if it owns the entire device lifecycle. It doesn’t – and that distinction matters more than most people realize when they’re starting out. Intune does not authenticate users.…
From Group Policy to Cloud Policy The move to Intune is often framed as moving policy to the cloud. That framing is close enough to feel accurate and wrong enough to cause real problems. In a traditional domain environment, policy…
Windows enrollment looks simpler than it is. Entra ID join, hybrid join, and device registration are easy to conflate – they all result in a device appearing in your tenant, and the differences between them aren’t always obvious until something…
The previous article explained why tenant customization matters and what each surface is designed to do. This one is about implementation – where these settings actually live and what I pay attention to when configuring them. Tenant customization doesn’t live…
Tenant customization is not a visual exercise. It’s an identity design decision that shapes how users interpret legitimacy, authority, and intent – long before a device is fully managed. When branding is treated as optional or deferred, users are trained…
Automatic enrollment is one of the most consequential configuration decisions in Intune.
If you’ve followed this guide in order, you now have something many environments never reach:
a coherent Intune design that makes sense months later, not just on go-live day.
